Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners does not go that route. It opens with a shot of a snowy forest, where a deer quietly noses around for food. Into the frame comes the barrel of a shotgun.
Just so, semantic theories and foundational theories of meaning are, pretty clearly, different sorts of theories. The term âtheory of meaningâ has, in the recent history of philosophy, been used to stand for both semantic theories and foundational theories of meaning.
1 Functional theories of grammar, a range of functionally based approaches to linguistics.2  Functional discourse grammar, grammar models developed by Simon C. Dik that explain how utterances are shaped based on the goals of language users. Functional theories of grammar, a range of functionally based approaches to linguistics.